Data

clerk/data/scdb_votes.json: SCDB fields about a single justice’s
vote in a single case.

clerk/data/scotus_cases.json: Case data from the SupremeCourt.gov
site, including transcripts and audio where available.

clerk/data/scores_courtterms.json: Data about the ideology of a
given Court term.

clerk/data/scores_justices.json: Data about the ideology and
qualifications of a given Justice before they were confirmed.

clerk/data/scores_justicetterms.json: Data about the ideology of
an individual Justice in a given Court term.

SCDB Data

SCDB data includes cases from 1946 term to the 2014 term. Many fields
need to be mapped to their full values. The SCDB maintains an online
codebook with these maps.

SCOTUS Data

The SupremeCourt.gov site has case data from the 2000 term until the
present for some cases. * Argument transcripts: 2000-present * Slip
opinions (decision PDFs): 2006-present * Oral argument audio:
2010-present

Ideology / Qualification Scores

Martin-Quinn scores measure the relative ideology of a Justice or a
Supreme Court term to the median Justice. Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn
wrote an excellent
paper about the method.

Segal-Cover scores measure the ideology and qualification of an
individual Justice before their appointment to the Court. Jeffrey
Segal wrote a
summary
and shows the raw data as a table (warning: PDF).